FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: kernel- or user-land [Was: Change of heart...]

["Graham Gilmore" <grahamg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>>      That's a lot of flexibility to trade away for a performance 
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>> that not a lot of users will notice.
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>No, you are wrong, a kernel stack properly done is easily ripped out.

        Easily ripped out by whom?  Kernel developers, perhaps :-)  Personally, 
I wouldn't know where to start (though I would have a clue with a user 
space network stack, because I know how user space applications work).  
And wouldn't that require modifying the kernel itself?  That seems 
rather more drastic than simply giving the user an application with a 
built-in network stack to fire up on their existing kernel.

>And you don't have to use it for networking at all. You could still 
>(and indeed, can) run net=5Fserver on a BONE BeOS system.

        I'll be the first to say that I'm no expert on either kernels or 
network stacks :) How does one bypass the built-in network stack in the 
kernel?

        Graham